Bel Lucy might be the wildly successful owner of Bella Publishing, specializing in romances, steamy and sweet, but she doesn’t believe in love. Bel certainly doesn’t believe in love after a wrong turn in the haunted Castle by the Sea lands her in fourteenth-century Ireland where she is forced to endure the company of the musclebound—not to mention poorly groomed—knight, Alaric DeLaMer.
In a time of famine and civil war, Alaric proves to be Bel’s protector while dismissing Bel as a prickly creature who delights in goading him with ridiculous tales. When a duplicitous alchemist sends Bel back to the 21st century, Bel discovers she can never be happy in any time or place—unless its beside Alaric, the complete opposite of Bel’s imagined romance heroes.
Realizing she was happier in the 14th century, Bel risks everything to battle her way back to Alaric but will her eternal beloved be waiting in his Castle by the Sea?
Targeted Age Group:: 21+
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
After having written several books about fourteenth century England, I wanted to see what was going on in medieval Ireland! I like time travels because I can contrast contemporary mores with past. And what castle is not home to ghosts of some sort? I also am not a fan of cookie-cutter romances where the characters behave toward each other the way real human beings never would. Guess I'm more interested in an actual "love story" than stereotypical "romance."
How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
I like to play with characters who think they know what they want in life, and then are so very surprised that, once they achieve their goals, they're disappointed. That's Bel Lucy, who fights falling in love with a man because he is antithetical to the romance heroes that inhabit the pages of her romance lines. And I like Alaric because he is firmly a creature of the fourteenth century, with all its customs and attitudes. I enjoyed the banter between them, along with the gradual realization that they had to travel through time to find their "eternal beloved."
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